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experience and explore a fascinating blend cultural heritage songs that. the d.w. world heritage 60 getting. plenty. of the boat . this is news coming to you live from above and the formula one racing legend niki lauda has died his family says he finds to replace them in the street loud it was known for his remarkable comeback for mushroom pics ash in the 1970s he looked back at his career and his achievements beyond the tracks also coming up. austria's political crisis deepens the country's chancellor
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of boston starts to feel the key to following a corruption scandal involving his coalition partners to the far right freedom party. and china's tech company colleague gives a defined response to the u.s. restrictions on his activities saying washington has underestimated the company. austrian formula one legend mickey lauder has died at the age of 70 his family says he passed away in his sleep at a hospital in hyundai brand a lung transplant 8 months ago health had been affected by her if it crash at the 976 jim grove pre he's been remembered as one of the best and most charismatic
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drivers in formula one history. a life in the fast lane nicky lauder the 3 time formula one world champion has passed away aged 70. lauder's health had been deteriorating for some time the austrian underwent a lung transplant in vienna in 2018 after being diagnosed with lung disease he was known as a fierce competitor considered by many as one of the greatest racing drivers of all time the only man to have won championships for both ferrari and mclaren allowed his incredible talent behind the wheel saw him play in 3 world titles between 1975 and 984 his exploits both on and off the track even serving as inspiration for the hollywood movie rush his most famous moment was however a traumatic one in 1986 loud it crashed into an embankment at the newburgh ring in germany he had to be pulled from the flaming wreckage and suffered horrific burns to his body which also affected his lungs despite his injuries allowed to return to
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race just 6 weeks later a remarkable show of courage and determination. following his retirement in 1905 loud became an entrepreneur in the world of aviation founding airlines including louder air and mickey as well as serving as a stakeholder non-executive chairman witness a nice f one. he will be remembered as a great of motor racing. and joining me to discuss nicky lound his legacy we have mark majors from the sport welcome mark a sad day for the world of sport many are describing making louder as a legend the you've met him what kind of impression did he make on you just a very friendly guy mean after his retirement you used to come to basically every f one race he could come to he was a summarize of german television i've covered f one race is talked to him in the paddock he would have time for absolutely everybody and if you wanted to know
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something about formula one you'd go and ask nicky know which driver was moving to which team which race was going to be because of the con. the next year he really did know everything and as a racing driver he was one of the best i mean winning 3 world titles is no mean feat to do it when you've had this horrific accident to win 2 of them after the accident just shows what an amazing character he was and yeah it's a huge loss for former one because he was very important also to the mercedes team as the non-executive director and you said he one of the drivers' championship 3 times but it's the race that he did not win for which he's lost 2 men but tell us yes indeed i mean obviously $976.00 a horrific crash at the german go on pray that was on the nordschleife a section of the ring which isn't used anymore that was the last time was of a use because they realize it was just too dangerous especially 5 times longer than any of a one track in the world the steep banks on it is very thin straights it's so long that the chances of paramedics getting to you quickly is always reduced so they
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just didn't use it i mean back in 97 his wrath remember f one drivers really took a huge risk there were basically drivers driving very over a dying every of a season and he amazingly managed to survive i mean the fireball was so huge that the driver that came to help him to pull him out of the wreckage had to go into the 5 all 3 times to release him and to get back in the cost 6 weeks later i mean most people wouldn't even go anywhere near a road car again never mind a formal one car going 20300 miles an hour and then to win 2 more world championships afterwards is just quite staggering i mean it's an amazing achievement and yeah he will be sorely missed by everyone if one i know because tributes have been coming in football overfull now do what happy to say yeah i mean social media has been awash with tribute towards him i mean you can have a look at some some tweets now former one as a company tweeted rest in peace nicky lauder forever carried in our hearts forever immortalized in our history the motor sport community today mourns the devastating
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loss of a true legend the faults of everyone at f one. with his friends and his family and then also drivers who were then i mean nico rosberg he won the world title from a sadie's have to say niki lauda was instrumental in bringing the title didn't he thank you for everything that you did for me i learned so much from you your passion your fighting spirit never give up your belief that you always meet twice in life so that shows that make it out it was more than just a racing driver more than just a member of a team he was a mentor to so many people and will fill his last greatly and all of this coming up ahead if a big more to recant coming up and of course he'd be much missed and remembered that we have to leave it there mark made us thank you so much for coming in and talking about the legacy of niki lauda. austria's coalition government is on the brink of collapse often ministers from the junior part of the far right freedom resigned last and the resignations come in the wake of
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a corruption scandal engulfing the far right vice chancellor heinz christiane he stepped down after video emerged of him offering state contracts to a portrait of russian investor for campaign support but now the future of the sebastian coe it's also looking uncertain with opposition parties courting for a no confidence vote in the government. agreed but resolute austria's far right freedom party has resigned all of its ministers from the government of chancellor sebastien cortes. that's in the wake of the corruption video scandal that's engulfed austrian politics since friday courts had encouraged his interior minister also and the freedom party to resign so he's intrigued me he didn't take that stance and so in consultation with the president i have also decided that i will propose to the president that the interior minister be dismissed dedicated to the minister in question this habit he said the scandal had followed
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a lengthy campaign by political bibles against the freedom party. sect in the us to fox since my 1st day in office my associates and i have been exposed to various attacks slander and insinuations and we're going to take a look at all states it's good isn't. in his comments the freedom party's designated leader appearing to distance the interior minister and the rest of the party from the disgraced vice chancellor shot into the gems as members of the government we said we would offer resignations if our interior minister had to take a is dismissed. in a minute why are we doing this you can have a cake who is not guilty of anything there's no investigation against him become almost any metal and you can but for a coup it's now left with a skeleton cabinet. the months ahead pose a challenge to strip we naturally want to ensure stability until the election and
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therefore the vacant positions will be taken over by experts or top officials. and all too aware of the need to defend his decision to have taken the fall right into government in the 1st place we hope when they see a government work together very well extremely substantively many reforms that were previously unthinkable did suddenly become possible i'm 100 percent convinced of the substance of work this government has done is to talk. with the far right freedom party effectively ditched from the government which one had hoped his conservatives could find stamp to scandal and contest snap election successfully later this year but with a potential no confidence vote on the horizon chancellor cts isn't home and dry yet . chance was in court fighting for his political survival basically what he wants to do is continue with his government through elections in september he wants to
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just replace the ministers of the freedom party. collectively on monday by experts or high civil servants but it's not certain whether the opposition will allow that because during the course of this week courts will already be faced with a motion of no confidence and next week the vote could happen in parliament things are moving fast. it all depends on how the opposition is going to decide the freedom party has already said they want revenge against courts they are going to go to against him the question is here will the social democrats follow suit or will they think of future possible coalitions as austria has seen so many off between conservatives and social democrats all this is open and courts this future is. and decided what the voters will make of all this is equally unclear during the european elections next sunday probably the consequences are not going to be that
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great the freedom party is likely to lose some votes of course back in september where the course is going to continue being the young star of austrian politics is anybody's guess. that was. reporting from vienna let me now bring you up to date with some of the stories making news around the world in sudan talks between the ruling generals and protesters of a power sharing deal have broken down opposition demonstrators have been camping outside the army headquarters for weeks they say that a civilian should head a transitional government after the ouster of the country's longtime strongman who the last mouth. new zealand police have filed terrorism charges against the man accused in the tris church mosque attacks he already faces $51.00 charges of murder police say he's also charged with engaging in a terrorist act after the shootings the charge comes with
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a maximum penalty of life interesting. a court in france has ordered the hospital to resume giving food and water to a man who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade 42 year old even say bed has been completely paralyzed since a motorbike accident back in 2008 his wife had campaigned for him to be allowed to die dispense contested the decision splitting the family and the nation. the french media swooped as varus so long best parents prepared for what was to be their final goodbye with their son. that killing him that killing him that monsters . paid for a long battle to prevent this happening. but not everyone in the family shares their view and some were clearly relieved that apply for he said i said this is the
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1st time i've told myself it's going to happen and everything is being done to make it happen so i'm quite serene and ready for it to end. doctors began shutting down 42 year old vets only on bell's life support but the battle wasn't over yet a paris court even ordered doctors to resume treatment it's the latest episode in a bitter legal battle that's divided lamberti family since the 2008 motorcycle accident left him in a state of minimal consciousness doctors say his condition has deteriorated and that for years now he's been in a persistent vegetative state bears wife rochelle his nephew and several siblings back to 2013 decision by his doctors to end life support his parents and 2 other siblings opposed it. long best parents have brought and lost cases before french courts and the european court of human rights in repeated efforts to prevent his life support being ended earlier this month the united nations committee on the
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rights of persons with disabilities requested that french authorities suspend the. decision to take him off life support while it examined the case monday's like decision from the paris appeal court ordered kid to be continued until united nations committee could consider an appeal from long parents. and for more on the case i'm joined by our correspondent louis embarrass the center of this case has already been all the way to the european court of justice which ruled in favor of the wife's position that he should be allowed to die now the united nations has got involved but does the u.n. have any legal jurisdiction well that's the big question really and people here are divided on that 1st french court said no it's not legally binding and the french government seems to think that as a vote but now another french court has said yes you have to wait for the decision
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so what's happening really is that this committee is now has now 6 months to look into the case of violence on there and then it makes an opinion and apparently legal experts aren't actually don't agree on if the government and the the doctors in charge of need to follow these instructions for now though they have to wait until further notice as we saw in the report that the long bears mother is calling doctors the monsters in the queues in them of killing her son clearly the family is very divided but what about the medical opinion in france. well a team of doctors taking care of him obviously seem to think that there is no hope and that he will die one day and that they need to switch him off so that he doesn't suffer anymore however there is a group of doctors several dozens of doctors who have published an op ed yesterday saying that they don't agree these doctors are specialized and in these cases of
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so-called people who are locked in or who are in a vegetative state for a very long time and they say it's just impossible to know what dance on the bare really wants and also he is not dying you just need to give him food and water but he's rather a disabled person and many other people here in france i'm the same state about 1700 and we don't know what they want so we shouldn't make the decision for them and this case has a drip of the french public is dominating media headlines why do you think this is the case. well as you said it's a very emotional case it's splitting a family into too and also dividing public opinion but there's also one other thing which is somehow specific to france so the decision in this very emblematic case that has been going on for more than 10 years will certainly have an impact on other cases because here when there is one such emblematic decision other judges
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look that way and then are more inclined to go the same way and to make a similar decision and that's obviously what many others of the families of these 1700 other people in such a permanent vegetative state are afraid of right elisa loose in battles thank you very much. the u.s. has temporarily ease the restrictions on its introduced last week for the next 3 months some american companies will be able to continue to provide components for the chinese tech giants existing networks and smartphones but while ways fonda says the white house is underestimating the company. the u.s. claims its thinking of ways customers a 90 day reprieve means select american companies will be able to continue working with the chinese to ensure existing users of it smartphones and networks don't
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suffer too much disruption. but while way hasn't exactly showered the white house with thanks in an interview with a chinese news site found a wrench young face said the u.s. had underestimated twa way strength and ability to make its own components some analysts agree that what might have seemed like a setback for the company could prove a major opportunity. they're already in the cheap foreign market and this is going to actually make make it probably better for them that they have something in-house that. they could actually make forms even cheaper. and in other markets the easing of restrictions comes a day after google barge walk away from some updates to its android operating system checking the types of challenges that could lie ahead for the company but the u.s. isn't pulling the plug completely for now at least. 19 years joke over dude who has declared victory in his presidential reelection bid after official election results
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were released a day ahead of said but video those challenger has refused to concede ultranationalist candidate and former military general. repeated his claims of widespread cheating at the polls warning of a possible mass uprising if the dodo is handed a 2nd term. the campaign official said they would challenge the results in court election officials have denied that ford played a significant role in video those 10 point advantage over his rival. for the veil it is let's go straight to jakarta i'm joined by jealous gado pettis salerno locanda an official results give joke of the a clear victory now why is this challenge so beyond the press choosing the election results. well i think that's the key of the question.
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not pure science could this be the elections through a popular movement on her past the previous elections you already chalons through the constitutional through no. actions at last so nothing. no no i don't. know i think we seem to have lost the lines to. we were talking to a correspondent about the results of the election that took over the has been declared the winner for a 2nd term akin to official results but those results as i mentioned are being challenged by his arrival trying to establish one a funny to programs a little moving on into our series on the german constitution of basic law which is 70 years old this month the constitution came to effect in 949 after being put together under the supervision of the victorious allied its aim was to ensure that
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the year after the years of nazi dictatorship and the destruction of the war the new germany was built on solid democratic foundations now 40 years later when rest in east germany were reunited the constitution was adopted in the new very unified germany. down syndrome is actually cool we just want to be like everyone else really under. natalee is 20 years old. she's a seasoned campaigner for equal rights for people with disabilities. not only lives with her family in cologne and has been seeing her boyfriend for a year she's due to move out soon and make her own decisions. for
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example i want to decide for myself whether to start a family of my own or inside and if i do become pregnant then i want to decide for myself things like how i act as i see fit over there and. i don't want to be checked on all the time and for decisions to be made for me that's how it feels to me. so grow up with us. developmentally challenged people in germany rarely find decent jobs with reasonable pay not only works in a cafe in a welfare center but for no salary she also writes for a magazine published by people with down syndrome unpaid voluntary work. so i'm natalie digital and i'm 20 years old and i still don't live alone i live in. a rally in berlin marching for equality campaigners like not only have already
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secured voting rights for developmentally challenged people in germany now they're trying to prevent more unborn children being tested for disabilities they fear that could lead to no more people with down syndrome being born. in the womb in the constitution in article 3 it says that all people have the same rights with or without disability so you shouldn't be so scared of us we're really cool well you know. she's managed to get politicians to listen she even confronted german chancellor angela merkel on the campaign trail 2 years ago. are these is this topic is important to me i don't want to be aborted i want to stay in this world. natalee's life is already pretty independent but it's something she also wants for
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others equal rights for all people with disabilities as written in the constitution you know it's about not pushing away people who have a disability it's about allowing them to take part letting them take part is really important the most important thing is that every person is valuable and everyone is taken seriously. voting is underway in malawi to elect a new president and parliament president peter baker is seeking reelection for a 2nd term with a population of about 20000000 malawi is one of the poorest countries in the way it's also one of the youngest some 70 percent of people below the age of 30 and. has this report on the tactics candidates are using to appeal to the youth vote.
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voter apathy is not a problem here turnout in these elections is expected to be very high the polling stations you open at 6 am already but many of the people here came already earlier . the country is expecting one of the most unpredictable elections in the history and 3 candidates standing the chance to win and the rule is you don't need 50 percent or more to win the elections you just need the largest share of the vote so let's have a look down here at the list of the candidates at the very bottom you find the current president. who is trying to run for a 2nd term he claims that he improved infrastructure and also stabilized the country his major contenders. and vice president cheney during their campaign rallies both of them mainly try to address the issues of young people of the youth that make up more than 50 percent of the registered voters in this election many young people here are not happy about the current situation my avi remains one of the poorest countries in the world the education system has problems and also there
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not enough jobs for the young people. that was deja news reporting on the elections you're watching the news here's a recap of the top stories a feel austrian formula one created. at the age of 70. 3 peacefully in the street. 131 time to survive cryptic trash at a $976.00 chevy 3. course is on the brink trash as a political crisis deepens funding a corruption scandal involving his father like conditions on. the opposition says it's a vote of no confidence in the government. and don't forget you can always get. a bill just download. still to give you access to all the latest.
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